Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated..

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of….

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to get mystical here, but there's an ….

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

Life does often get in the way of one's reading..

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and al….

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, beca….

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..

Nothing good comes out of depression..

I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose.….

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me about two years to writ….

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for….

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel ….

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and suffer….

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can..